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Student Debt
The Stimulus Fails Student Borrowers. Congress Must Cancel Their Debt.
While colleges can tap into a $14 billion emergency relief fund, millions of their alumni will get no relief at all.
In Stunning Bipartisan Rebuke of DeVos, Senate Overturns Anti-Student Rule
The Senate overturned a new rule that would have prevented defrauded students from having their loans forgiven.
Sanders Campaign Releases Details on How He Will Pay for His Major Plans
Sanders unveiled a fact sheet on how he would finance Medicare for All, a Green New Deal and cancel student debt.
New Financial Aid Scheme Requires Students to Forfeit Future Income to Investors
As plans emerge to experiment with income share agreements, critics say they are just a new spin on student debt.
The US Granted Free Tuition Before, and It Can Do It Again
The College for All Act would free up billions of dollars tied up in tuition and student loan payments.
To Cancel Student Debt, You Don’t Need Congress
All of the 2020 candidates should commit to using executive action to bring immediate relief to student borrowers.
Congressional Oversight Claimed Important Victories in 2019. Here Are the Top 5.
Betsy DeVos, Jamie Dimon, Elliott Abrams and Donald Trump were all held to account this year.
Betsy DeVos’s Vision for an Indebted Future? A Robotic Student Loan Chatbot
Automating financial aid with dystopian chatbots and streamlined websites will not solve the student debt crisis.
Betsy DeVos Forced Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges to Repay Loans
DeVos overruled findings calling for full debt relief. Now she wants to gut the debt relief program entirely.
DeVos Accused of Scheming to Stop Next President From Canceling Student Debt
The plan involves turning the Federal Student Aid office into a new and supposedly independent federal agency.